Up: [[Accept Reality]] Related: [[Tension of Opposites]] Created: 2023-02-03 Updated: 2026-01-25 - rational/irrational - personal/collective - extraversion/introversion - Heaven/earth - Mind/body - Active/passive - Darkness/light - Unity/multiplicity - Knowledge/mystery - Conscious/unconscious - Masculine/feminine - Good/evil - formal knowledge/ intuitive knowledge - logic/emotion - structure/intuition - Flesh/spirit - Hidden/manifest - Yin/yang - Disorder/order - Actual/possible - winning/losing - action/passivity - sex/celibacy Pairs of Opposites in Movement - forward/back - left/right - giving/receiving - quickly/slowly - assertive/gentle - stable/fluid And here are a bunch more that came from women attending [[Write into Paradox]] - I am living/ I am dying - I am enough/ I am not enough - I am caretaker/ I am neglector - I am safe/ I am not safe - Being tired/ being engaged - I have travelled a long distance/ I have walked in circles - I have a body/ I exist without bounds - I am grateful/ I am entitled - My mother is dead/ She is never far away. - I feel young/ I feel old - I can see/ I am often blind - My greatest joys are my strongest chains - I worry about death/ I welcome death - I feel safe/ I am trapped And then these ones in our world today - Russia/Ukraine - Vaccers/anti-vaccers - Free choice/ pro-life - Republicans/Democrats - Fundamentalist Christians/everyone else - Liberals/Conservatives - Environmentalists/Industrialists Re these world ones, the last time Donald Kalsched knew of the opposites being this extreme was World War II. Social media does a great job of polarizing opposites.